Why Would Anyone Do This???????????

Just thought of another thing. This malicious person also inferred that he could hear what takes place inside my home.

Would connecting my phone line to a cable television line enable such a nut to do this?

Just don't understand the purpose of attaching my phone line to a cable television line. lol

Local law enforcement doesn't understand it, either, but don't seem all that concerned about it. Other factors involved make it of great concern to me.

I don't understand this kind of thing either. Maybe it is related in some way to "other factors", some resentment perhaps?

Much more serious factors, I am afraid.

Is the set-up I described a phone tap? Someone has definitely been overhearing my phone conversations, stalking my movements on the internet, and engaging in other illegal activities.

I'm no expert, I hope someone who knows more about all this will come along and post.

One more thing to add here. Is anyone familiar with www.epassporte.com? That's the business that attempted to use my credit card three times.

I'm shocked the police are not more concerned. I know someone who had a similar problem and the police were on his situation like dogs on a pork chop. The crimes you describe are felonies. You should call your state attorney general and ask them how to proceed. I assume you have already notified your bank and credit card companies. If someone steals your identity it can take years to straighten out.

What did you investigate, and how?

I went to my outside phone line box. A cable coming from it was connected to the cable television line.

I posted somewhere in this great forum that the person stalking me is HERE and has started posting here.

I have another thread called "How Did They Do This?" in the internet section here.

Thanks to all you regulars here. I have been a reader here for about 3 years.

ETA: I CUT that cable and removed it.

Your information is a little too imprecise. Many signals, such as "cable" television and internet access, can now be sent over telephone lines. The cable company that puts a coaxial cable into your house for the television can also provide internet access, and long-distance telephone service. By the same token, the telephone company can now provide cable television programming and internet access over telephone lines which have been laid for DSL (digital subscriber line--the high speed internet service with which people are increasingly familiar).

I long worked for a security equipment and systems company. I have personally laid miles and miles of coxial cable, as well as "telephone" line (anywhere up to and including 25-pair) and fibre optic cable. Although it is not impossible, i don't for a moment believe that this joker can hear anything whic his going on inside your home. It sounds to me like the clown is just trying to make it spookier, and scarier. If your "cable" television "line" is in fact coaxial cable, no one connected anything from the phone line--apples to oranges. However, if contemporary high density data line such as is now used by telephone companies to provide you phone service, DSL and television is how your "cable" television gets to your house, it is not improbable that the two were connected--but it is doubtful. It takes special and expensive tools to strip coaxial cable, crimp on a working connector and hook it up to any signal source. It is even more difficult to cut, crimp, connect and make fibre optic cable to work.

The simplest solution? Get the phone company out there, raise holy livin' hell with 'em, and saying not one word about the joker who claims to have done this, tell the phone company they had better explain what is going on and fix things, or you'll got to another service provider.

You'll be surprised at what kind of response those boys and girls will give you if you handle this correctly.

EDIT: I see you say you cut the line--good first step. Now, call the phone company or the cable tv company, or both, and raise a stink until they send someone out there to check it out. Call the cops, every day, and more than once a day if they don't respond, until they get sick of hearing from you and do something about it.

Thanks for your reply.

I have called local law enforcement every day for the last five days. A patrol officer always responds, and yesterday after I cut the cable, I called again and the patrol officer saw the set-up I am talking about and took the piece of cable I had cut and removed with him to give to a detective.

Law enforcement says this is a telephone company issue.

Telephone company says it is a law enforcement issue.

At my home I have cable television. I have phone service and DSL service through another company. Two different companies. What I saw was a new black coaxial cable coming from inside the telephone box attached to the outside of my house. It was directly connected to my cable television connection.

Even though cable television companies usually use a cheap grade of coaxial cable (security firms commonly use the most expensive and best cable for the security camera installations they do), it is nevertheless not a common skill-set to connect coaxial cable. It either requires a hell of a lot of skill with a common pocket knife and a pair of pliers, or it requires a coax stripper (a dedicated tool) and a set of coax crimps (a dedicated tool) and either an RCA connector set or a BNC connector set to get the job done. Neither the tools nor the connectors are cheap. Cable television companies commonly use RCA connectors, security cameras are commonly connected with BNC connectors. Anyone who made a genuine connection to your coax was only stealing the cable signal from you, and without the box, they were only getting basic cable. They could not have tapped your phone, nor could they have heard anything that was going on in your home.

I repeat, raise a stink with the cable company and the phone company until this is resolved. They're just tryin' to ditch the problem, and pass it on to someone else. Call the phone company and tell them if someone doesn't come out and check it out, you're going to sign up with the cable company for phone and DSL service. Then, after they've been out there, call the cable company and tell them you're going to buy television from the phone company if they don't get out there and check it out.

Hit 'em in the wallet, you're guaranteed to get a rise out of someone.

As I was calling telephone repair service again, I was disconnected two times. It seems my malicious, vile, vicious internet stalker who probably molests children, too, has contacts very close by. He apparrently saw what I had posted here and sent them to my next door neighbor's house. The police are on the way.

Uhm, you might wanna lay off the paranoia for a little while--switch to tea or juice for a while--calm down until after the police have come and gone.

I think this whole thing is a bunch of bunk.

That's surely always likely . . . if the member here only wants to get attention, that has been accomplished, and at no cost to any of us. If it is legit, i've given the best information and advice i have to give.

Always the sweetie pie. :wink:

Don't our doggies look cute together?

You betcha . . .

It's quite obvious to me that my stalker saw what I posted here and reacted to it. My telephone box is attached to my neighbor's side of this apartment where I live.

Attention seeking, I am not.